Finding Some Culture

One of the reasons that I chose to move to Dubai is its population, which is 80% expats. This means there are a whole lot of cultures happening here that aren't Emirati which is an incredible experience for a girl who spent her entire life living within in a three hour radius of where she was born. It is interesting though, that the smorgasbord of cultures, mixed with the fact that Dubai is a relatively new city, makes it hard to find a whole lot of real UAE culture in Dubai (unless you count brunching as a culture).

My visit to the Al Fahidi historical neighborhood was a nice change of pace. It's a neighborhood that has been designed to look like old 1900 Dubai. There are adorable shops and souqs and cafes and cool museums scattered around.

open air art shop

This hummus was to die for. I want more of it right now.

Yes, I ate this and yes, it was delicious.

After wandering around this neighborhood for a bit we made our way to the textile souq which was quite the experience. I'm not good at haggling.  Then we took a water taxi over to the gold souq for 1dhs (slightly more than one quarter).  I bought a (fake, I'm sure) Michael Kors bag.  

We were of course the only girls on the water taxi because there are only men in Dubai.

Sorry that there are no pictures of people. I might as well not take pictures and just google some if I'm not going to take pictures of myself.